If you're addicted to alcohol or narcotics and you are seeking help for the problem, you may think the only real option is to join Aa or Narcotics Anonymous.

Being faced with just one choice seems to mean that your problem is equivalent to everyone else's in that group - but you are an individual and you're probably believing that you do not also have a "disease". You've taken the steps arrive at terms with the fact that you need to do need assistance, and you may not need a strategy having a strong religious aspect.

The good thing is there are options to NA and AA. The majority of these alternative programs base their assistance on also acknowledging that alcoholism and drug addiction are not diseases. They consider these to be bad choices that got unmanageable. Bottom line is that some who attend NA or AA meetings just can't make sure they are work, even though they may be useful to thousands of others.

Each of us is an individual and some people aren't comfortable in language which involves a higher power. The 12 steps could also not click for all addicts..

A few of these alternative programs focus on looking deeper in to the individual, locating the causes of addiction while giving those individuals a much better respect for themselves, and instilling hope. Rather than repeating phrases that translate to "once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic", alternative programs offer hope,even if you failed in the past to kick your particular bad habit. Their credo is for each individual to raise his life expectations, and therefore add hope to his outlook.

One such approach is discussed by Amy Lee Coy. Amy wasn't someone who found Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous the key to her recovery.She spent 20 years of her lifetime battling drug abuse and tried all the conventional methods, including extensive psychiatric courses and medication. Amy shares everything in it she wrote about her journey from addiction to personal success, taking us through her entire process of recovery.